War and Media Network

Wednesday 5thJune 2019 Newcastle University How do we do critical military studies? CMS has done much to explore the myriad sites, subjects and practices of military power, considering for example military memoirs (Woodward 2003; Woodward & Jenkings 2012, 2018), toys and video games (Martin & Steuter 2010; Woodyer 2012; Yarwood 2015), sport (Kelly 2012; Cree & Caddick forthcoming) and even food products (Tidy 2015).More recently, emerging work has begun to consider the creative and performing arts as lenses through which to explore militarised culture, including theatre (Basham & Bulmer forthcoming; Purnell & Danilova 2018), dance (Åhäll 2018), and music (Cree forthcoming; Baker forthcoming). This work gives texture to our understandings…

PSA’s Political Violence & Terrorism Specialist Group Annual Conference 28 March 2019, Senate House, London Despite a proliferation of terrorism research since 9/11, the study of terrorism continues to operate within the constricted notions of what terrorism is, who perpetrates it, why it takes place, and how states and society might respond, resulting in an essentialist conception of terrorism as a coherent and bounded object of knowledge (Jarvis, 2009). However, from a constructivist perspective, terrorism is a social construction (Jackson 2005; Gunning 2007), that is constituted in large part through discourse and representations. Discourse, as Foucault maintained, is productive. In other words, violent political acts do take place, but it…

Nov 29-Dec 1st at Kings College, London The Symposium is one of a series of taking place alongside our exhibition, Reconciliations, which runs from 1 November – 1 December 2018  in The Exchange, Bush House, King’s College London and from 1 November-19 January at The Knapp Gallery, Regent’s University.  For other events in the series click here Art & Reconciliation: Conflict Culture and Community is a major collaborative project between King’s College London, the University of the Arts London and the London School of Economics and Political Science, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council under its Partnership for Conflict Crime and Security Research Programme and the Global Challenges Research Fund. The project explored…

9 November 2018 Hunter Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh Depictions of conflict have played a significant artistic and political role in various cultures throughout history. Recent studies have focused on the part that art and artists play during armed conflict, revolutions, and reconciliation, demonstrating the potential art has to glorify, memorialise, critique or oppose conflict. In addition, conflict is present in ongoing discourse surrounding post-colonial theory and the role of cultural institutions in relation to looted art and artefacts. New Voices 2018 will give postgraduate and doctoral researchers an opportunity to discuss the topic of art and conflict and to address persistent historical, contextual, and conceptual questions.…